Face of Australia - Party at the Gap

The last of the Barbados collection, this gunmetal grey with silver glitter applied opaquely in 2 coats. It may look a little bit rough in the pictures, but I think that was purely user error - I painted my nails outside and it was freezing! so I rushed it. 

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Face of Australia - You Blue Me Away

I think we all know how I feel about blues by now! I picked this up purely so I could have the entire collection (plus it was only like AU$3). This had probably the thickest of formulas in the whole collection, so this was a one coater. It actually dried pretty quickly which was nice :)

Face of Australia - Bright Lights, Pink City

A gold glittered pink. Again this is a sheer jelly, but I really like how much gold comes through. This is 2 coats without a top coat.

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Face of Australia - Another Daiquiri Please

It is very rare to enjoy every polish from a larger collection, and I'm starting to get into the "meh" polishes in the Barbados range. I mean, I don't dislike this colour, but it won't be one I reach for frequently. A reddened-pink jellied sheer polish with pink and silver shimmers (if that makes sense!), I applied 2 coats in the pictures below. 

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Face of Australia - Let's Go Scuba Diving!

Hey guys, sorry for the seemingly lack of posts for the last 2 days, I was accidentally hitting save rather than publish! Anyway, today I'm sporting another FoA Barbados shade. I'm not the biggest fan of this shade - is it aqua or teal or turquoise? I can never remember - but this was bright and cheery nonetheless. I also forgot to clean up which is something that is becoming habit, so if it really bothers you, I'm sorry!

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Direct sun

Direct sun

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Face of Australia - I Like to Mauve It

I love the name of this polish because I always mentally break out into the song (the Madagascar version of course!). The colour and silver glitters are nice, and it applied easily in 1 coat, but I applied 2 'just in case.' No top coat.

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Face of Australia - Orange You Glad You Came?

I like this. It's hard for me to pull off orange shades so I don't love it, but it's a pretty polish so if you can work orange nails, pick this up! I especially love how prominent the gold sparkles are :) 2 coats, no top coat.

Face of Australia - Calypso-Gold

I really enjoyed this shade of gold, and it was much more flattering on my skin tone than strong yellow based golds tend to be. This has been compared to OPI's Up Front and Personal on a few blogs that I've read, but IMO, they are really quite different. This was almost a one-coater, but I decided to do 2, and it applied smoothly and dried quickly. I was really impressed with this polish, as I am with most of the limited edition collections that Face of Australia put out in this bottle shape. The only odd thing about this Barbados collection is that it looks like it should have been released about 3 months ago, so if you know why they released this collection at the beginning of autumn, please let me know!

Face of Australia - Lemon Sorbet

I'll be honest, as soon as I put this polish on, I wanted to take it straight back off. I did 2 coats here but I probably needed 3 because if you enlarge the images, you'll notice gaps. Whilst I love the whole pastel yellow trend and own a few variations of this colour, every time I try it I get lobster hands and end up regretting choosing the colour.

Indoor/poorer lighting

Indoor/poorer lighting

Indoor/poorer lighting

 Just as I was about to take this polish off, I thought a glitter or shatter might redeem it slightly. I used OPI's Silver Shatter, and whilst I liked the result much better for my skin tone, it still only lasted about 4 hours before I decided to take it off.

Indoor/daylight lighting

Indoor/daylight lighting